Then later, when the Earth gets away from the sun and starts to slow down, that's the time of year we call spring and summer.

NPR: Not All Seasons Are Created Equal

Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.

NPR: Not All Seasons Are Created Equal

That demand comes most vocally from Jean Charest, the premier of Quebec, who is expected to call his own election this spring.

ECONOMIST: Canada

Mr Bouchard is expected to call a vote next spring, and Daniel Johnson, the uninspiring leader of the Quebec Liberals, has made it clear to his federalist allies elsewhere that he will need a unity package to offer, if he is to have any hope of success.

ECONOMIST: Canada—well, most of it—tries again | The

He spent 13 minutes on a conference call with reporters Thursday afternoon, one of his lengthier and more cordial sessions of the spring, but he never did reveal any details behind perhaps the biggest story of the series so far: his decision to bench star forward Marian Gaborik for much of the third period in Game 2.

WSJ: Tortorella Press Conference Etiquette 101

Daniel Craig woos women and undoes men with a hint of subterranean menace spring loaded to please or harm once he decides which shot to call.

CNN: Opinion: Why it's ok to flirt your way to the top

In the spring of 1997, Meyer Kahn, 58, chairman of South African Breweries, got a phone call that really startled him.

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